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Americans will use anything but metric
We use decimal inches in machine shops, that's a metric system.
SI though, that's what gets people mad.
Except for some reason you didn't come up with your own units for:
Is adapting a standard instead of making your own something negative?
It's not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.